[rabbitmq-discuss] Hacking on RabbitMQ?

Thu Nov 24 10:44:00 GMT 2011

Hi,

I wrote a couple of docs some months ago and you can find them here:
https://github.com/videlalvaro/rabbit-internals

Feel free to fix them/expand them but I'm not sure if they will help much.

Regarding the msg_store and the msg_index the modules there have a lot of
docs in the source code itself.

Then take a look at the .hrl files, specially those that define Erlang
behaviours… those have a lot of docs on what each function should
implement. I always open the behaviour definitions and then grep for
modules implementing them and start from there.

Then on the rabbit_types.erl you can get a lot of insights since you can
see what a "binding_destination" is for example. You can see what the
record structures are and so on.

Read the module proper/quickcheck specs. Those can give you some info about
the expected behavior.

For exchanges I would just read other plugin exchanges. Notably those
written by Matthew like the consistent hashing exchange. I think the
implementation of the topic exchange is quite interesting too.

Regarding Erlang/OTP itself keep in mind that RabbitMQ uses its of
gen_server2 module. There might be other custom modules too that improve on
OTP itself.

I hope this helps,

Alvaro

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <ekirpichov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does there exist an openly accessible list of open issues in RabbitMQ (not
> client libraries), classified by difficulty / severity?
> Does there exist an architectural guide for developers? (I saw the
> comments in source - they're very informative, but a still higher-level
> overview would be even better)
>
> I'd be interested in spending some of my free time trying to fix them -
> both for helping RabbitMQ and for getting some experience with Erlang :)
>
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> Eugene Kirpichov
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